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Welcome back, hour number three to Minow and the Mayor.

Very special thanks having Pam Seidel, Executive Director of Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau, how the draft affects the Fox Cities.

They've got some amazingly wonderful things taking place there.

If nothing else, the shuttle, which is gonna be great from the mall right downtown.

They've got some great things, almost like a mile of music taking place next week.

They got a lot of great things going on.

Of course, the airport, they're so easy to fly in and out.

Check them out.

In fact, there would be announcing some things at 10 o'clock this morning.

I check out the Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau.

They still have hotel rooms available.

They got a lot of stuff going on down there.

Don't lock them out from this.

FoxCities.org.

Yes, FoxCities.org.

Yep.

Joining us right now, Daryl Burnett, automobile gallery and event center located just down the street from us right here.

First of all, Bart Starr's car is going to be there and the James Bond car is going to be there.

But, Daryl.

First we have to talk about this day or the trap we're talking with Randy right And I told you the story you remember mine off your member go back this far.

Oh, yeah I drove over from Flint, Michigan.

I did with my stay at the arena motel with my wife and two little girls right and Drove like almost all night to get there for like was it six in the morning Darrell at the Packer locker room?

Oh, I just remember we would show up and it was dark.

Yes, I'm not choking I'm not choking about that because I walked over from the arena motel to the thing and it's like

Man, we're really having a draft now.

When I covered the lines, it wasn't that big of a deal.

You know what I mean?

It wasn't at all versus here.

I'm like,

whoa, this is... Well, even in 84, it wasn't like the big show that it is today.

Right.

Each team kind of did their own thing, and

the backers were no different.

And Darrell would do... Here's what we're going to do.

There'd be even like soap operas on.

And when like the New York Giants like Phil Sims, Darrell would break in.

Remember that?

Yes.

I'm sure the station got a myriad of

calls

because

I broke it with a soap opera, but it

was big news.

But that's how we ran.

And, you know, we used to, it used to be like detectives.

I mean, yes, there were all these shows and all of these scouts out there and Mel Kuiper wasn't out there making predictions.

We had to do our own spade work back then.

Absolutely.

And you just like somebody gets drafted and I got really lucky.

It must have been the next year, whatever your Ken Rutgers was drafted.

And just by just from.

And just by chance, my old roommate in college was working at KNBC.

And I just called him out of the blue and he goes, yeah, we were sitting with him when he was drafted.

We're the only ones.

So they put it on a plane to Milwaukee or something.

Because I remember we used to run to the bus station to drop off tapes.

What did we, how did we do

that?

Yes, we would.

We would shoot tapes or we would get tapes in and anxiously wait at the airport.

If the flight was late, you know, we'd drive a hundred miles an hour back to the station.

Do you remember what we would do for the away games?

We'd have one guy, cameraman, a photo.

He would have to hold the equipment, do the interviews, yada, yada, yada.

And then when he was done, he would give them to one of the equipment managers and they would carry them back to the jeep and hand them to us at the airport.

Things have changed.

Now you

pull out your cell phone and

everything gets

transmitted.

Darrell Burnett automobile gallery and event center, but we had to go back to

draft days of the 80s.

Can I tell my favorite Randy Wright story?

Absolutely.

And I have to.

qualify this by saying Randy Wright was one of my favorite packers of

all the nicest guys.

The

nicest guy had a lot of pressure on him being a former Wisconsin badger.

But his very first game was against the Oakland Raiders.

Then Oakland Raiders.

Lynn Dickey got hurt.

Yeah.

And Randy Wright

goes.

How long they still use that?

How we long?

Every time they talk about how we long as a player, it's him just annihilating Randy

Wright and.

That was the soundbite after the game when Howie Long, who now is a big cuddly

broadcaster,

but back then he was just a typical Oakland Raider, a beast.

And he said in the post game interview, he said, when Randy Wright came up to take the snap, his eyes were as big as saucers.

And he said, I knew right then the game was over.

And he got a feel for Randy Wright looking across at Lyle Alzado.

Yes, just Matt Millen at middle linebacker.

things got better for Randy over

the years.

Yeah, they did.

But all great guy.

I still remember that game.

Great guy.

It was just fun.

But my guy to tell Jim, he goes, you guys ate that well in the locker room?

Heck, yeah.

Remember the broasted chicken?

Well,

maybe you did.

I, you know, I was always working.

There

you go.

You

know,

so that, okay.

I don't recall any of that, John.

There you go, Daryl.

Some things never change.

So even though it was 84, that's our producer ringing the bell.

So Daryl, here we are, you know,

Well, I want to talk about the automobile gallery.

There's what you say 200 events you do there.

I mean,

I drive

by there because I live over there.

You always have something going on there.

It appears to me, but you're doing something special with the draft.

I mean, there are going to be people in town.

I don't know how many because we don't know.

Right.

Even our previous guest before you said, you know, Appleton, there's we're.

I think people have a fear we're sold out, and I'm here to tell you that if you have friends coming in, or if you know friends that are thinking of coming in, tell them to come in.

We definitely

want people to come, and that's what we're doing is we're not only opening our arms, we're opening our doors, we're extending our hours during the draft, and we're inviting people to come in and not only experience the Bart Starr Super Bowl 1 MVP Corvette, because it's more artifact than it is automatic.

I have to ask you something about that, Darryl.

I thought he had donated that to Boys Ranch.

That was the second one.

That

was

the second

one.

The

second one.

The second one he never actually sat in.

He, it was a

red 68.

See that pictures of him sitting somewhere.

Okay.

And then he raffled it off.

They sold $40,000 tickets for a $4,000 car.

Wow.

And that paid off the land mortgage for.

So that car is now at Rawhide and we have the first one which Bart subsequently sold to Chuck Lane who was then the Packers PR director.

Oh

yeah.

Lynn Dickie sold me his car.

Remember that yellow?

I remember that well and you know when we talk about that yellow.

Ford or Buick, I put my hand over my heart and I remember it very, very well.

But you know, I've said this before, I know it didn't work out so well for

you.

Well, the engine blew after a month.

Right.

But Lynn drove that car right up until his last contract.

I know.

And then he switched to a Mercedes after that

big contract.

But I will say this, you and I may have had the two most bright yellow colored cars in Green Bay.

Yes.

And I had the

Porsche.

I had that for 43 years

before I

finally sold it a couple of years.

years ago.

That's awesome.

So, uh, how are you feeling about the draft?

I mean, you have, like I said, you have 200 events and I want to, I want to talk about that, but I want to focus, we're going to focus on the draft because the draft's going to be over before we know it.

And I think we need to take advantage of this opportunity and whether it's going to be 150 or 250 or 500,000 people, um, I want people to get into this and we're extending your hours.

You've got to

really cool display coming up.

Yeah, thank you for asking.

We took it upon ourselves not to rely on the NFL or expect anything.

And as it's turned out, we've had to book our own events.

And so we didn't do this by design, but

I

think Pam would be in line with you, sir.

We waited, waited, waited to the point of, okay, we got to make this happen.

It's going to be, it's going to be up to me or whatever the old saying is.

That's right.

So it just worked out that I had been working on a James Bond collection for the last seven years.

I had the good fortune of knowing the founder of the Inflaming Foundation for 22 years.

And it was never in our financial strata.

I mean, we weren't even in the same hemisphere with what it would take to get a James Bond.

James Bond collection in.

And then this year, I added a Brits on the Bay car show, a British car show coming in August.

So I just used the occasion to pick up the phone called Doug Radinius, the founder of the Ian Fleming Foundation, and asked for one vehicle.

And he said, boy, your timing couldn't be better.

So the Griffith Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was wrapping up its display of the James Bond collection.

Fabulous museum, if you've ever been there, on April 6th.

and we pulled together things at lightning speed, and I'm very happy to say that we're debuting it with an event at the gallery, April 22nd, as we kick off the Interpol

Drive.

Oh, wow, that's perfect timing.

That's a week from today.

A week from today.

That's awesome.

So tell me a little bit about the car.

Oh, it's car.

It's way up 12.

James Bond vehicles coming in.

We have the Lotus Submarine.

We have the Aston Martin with the skis on it.

We have the Jaguar XKR with the full arsenal, the machine guns, the missiles, all of that.

We have the famous Q-Boat that Pierce Brosnan drove.

And we have, oh, many, many other things.

Motorcycles, a Paravane.

I mean, it's just,

it's a

smorgasbord of James Bond is what

it is.

Are they, are they at one time formerly real cars, street ready type cars or they Hollywood creations

of cars?

James Bond is very different than a lot of movies.

Everything that they use works.

Okay.

Now some of it is in a different form.

They'll make three or four, but like the Jaguar XKR drives, that's what they actually

head on the ice, the Aston Martin ski, ski car, same thing.

There's spikes in the tires.

Everything works because James Bond was so far ahead, they would be introducing things, you know, three, four years in advance that finally came, you know, to fruition in regular society.

So they went out and made these things.

That's incredible.

It'd be fun to watch some of the movies.

And then, you know, see the car and it's, oh, that's the one

we saw last night.

Well, and we're going to have posters.

We're going to have original banners.

These banners are worth a lot of money that were actually in the subways in England and New York, original documents.

So this is, again, true history.

And it's hard to put our arms around, but this is a franchise larger on a much larger scale.

then dare I say the Green Bay Packers.

This is worldwide.

Trillions and trillions of dollars have been spent on nearly 30 James Bond movies since 1964.

Wow.

And like you said, worldwide, there's big and England in different places.

They are here.

And that's a unique ownership, right?

Who owns that?

Oh,

you know, we don't have to get into that, but that's the best

part of this story.

Right.

This this negotiation, if you will, went on for weeks.

The day I finally was able to tell our board of directors that this was happening was the day that Amazon MGM took over creative control.

of the Bond franchise.

How's that for a great time?

That's unbelievable.

That's cool.

So is this running?

Is it gonna be here through Sunday or what's the deal on

this?

No, we're going to have this for 365 days, but we're going to have a special launch next Tuesday night with Bond martinis, heavy hors d'oeuvres, and there's still tickets available if you'd like to come.

Oh, is this third not shaken?

That's, you know, you are a good James Bond fan, John.

You

don't want to bruise the gen.

That's right.

This is really cool.

This is big.

In fact, there was a good gentleman who came in the other day.

He had just taken his children to see the Bond collection in Chicago on the last day at the Science and Industry Museum.

And he came in and he said,

This looks like the ones we saw last I said these are the same ones you saw in Chicago.

Okay.

We got this is too big to just like know we're gonna talk more about this week and back Darryl Burnett automobile gallery and event center James Bond car collection back right after this

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I would

I mean, talking during the break, it's like, whoa.

I don't know what the rest of the staff is going to do next year, John.

Good luck to them.

They're going to get dicky sold doing it.

That's right.

But I mean, these cars from the Spy who loved me die another day.

I mean, that's amazing.

That's here.

It really is.

And we were

talking before.

A part of the collection is in Germany right now.

Previous to that, bonded motion was on display in London.

How did they trans...

We

had two 53 foot trailers and one 20 foot trailer.

When I say trailer, 18 wheelers come in and it was a job.

It was about a day and a half for us to get everything unloaded.

And you just don't roll them off the truck.

I mean, when you have a load of submarine, which was arguably, you know, it's worth over a million dollars.

I still want to see your guys park those things.

I mean, that's just amazing.

Well, once they're parked, they're

staying.

Wow.

Wow.

And then I, this is really exciting too.

For the first time ever, we have two models and it models hardly does it justice.

These are so intricate that the spark plugs even go into them, but they're about two feet long and we have the Lotus submarine and we have the famous

1965 Aston Martin DB5 that Sean Connery drove in model form from a company called Agora out of England.

These are worth over $5,000 a piece because they are so intricate and they are handmade.

They are on their way and they're going to be part of the display as well under glass.

Are you

surprised sometimes that, you know, somebody might be a normal guy, normal job or Lady River, but they've got such a passion for cars that aren't, that's not on the surface, but it's when you've got that passion, it isn't.

deep passion, isn't

it?

It is amazing.

And this is even more amazing when you talk about the serendipity.

Last week, and you know, we're very honored to have people from all over the world come to the gallery.

But last week, we had a young lady come into the gallery on the day that the cars were arriving from the Faroe Islands, which is over by what, Greenland?

Yeah.

And in the last James Bond movie where he supposedly lost his life,

the Faroe Islands was where that took place.

And this young lady pulls out pictures of the tombstone that is on the Faroe Islands.

Now, I don't know the last time you've been to the Faroe Islands,

but I've never been

there.

And

for her to walk through the doors,

she was

so excited and she's continued

to stay in

touch with us.

But

how is that for a great

punctuation

of what we're doing?

That's exactly what I was getting at.

I'm going when you don't need a passport anymore.

This is great.

You have posters around town?

The only reason I say that, the next lady that's coming on is Patty Key, who runs Transit.

And a lot of people are going to be on the bus.

So put one in the buses, because everybody's going to be seeing those.

She's running them every 15 minutes, and we're taking people to the draft and back from the draft all day, all night.

Well,

thank you for saying that, because we realize what we have.

And so this is going to be the largest.

campaign we have ever run.

You know, we're an offer profit.

So often, you know, we have limited funds, but we know that this appeals to people

well

beyond the Midwest, you know, across the entire country.

I mean, these movies, who hasn't seen at least two of these, right?

Oh, I know.

And you can always depend on it being entertaining.

Oh, not even a question, Mark.

Not even a question.

I don't care if you watch 20 minutes, half an hour or whatever.

You're entertained for that whole time.

Exactly.

No question.

One other thing I want to talk about a little bit, just not to belabor the Bart Star thing, but obviously we lost Cherry.

And Bart Junior is the last of the family, really.

Can you just put it in words?

And that's why I've tried to do that.

That's why I'm so disappointed.

We got the thing out here on the Walnut Street Bridge.

Got the Bart Star sign.

There's broken glass on the sidewalk.

There's barbed wire behind it.

It's just disappointing sometimes.

It's some of the things we want.

It's almost like, you know, if somebody goes to your dad's gravestone, you want to see, you want them to see nice flowers that you haven't forgotten them.

I wish things would be cleaned up a little bit more to pay homage to Bart Starr and his family, what they've done for the state of Wisconsin.

And I just, I would agree with that.

I just want to say that you did hear that that school is he's probably going to have a school and I think that's going to happen.

So I think that and it's the

part and Cherry school, right?

That's what I

understand.

But I don't

know.

Oh, I thought it was Bart and no, maybe I'm wrong.

Okay, never mind.

Yeah.

There's two options, the Bart Starr and also the Bart and Cherry Starr.

So there's

two options.

But that

That's great.

And because that's somebody who just not, because football gets a little bit overplayed, but he was just a really, and you knew him.

I mean, he's a really good guy.

I've often said every professional athlete should be sent to the Bart Starr School because the way he carried himself, and I'll take it right down to the minutiae.

The way he signed his autograph, and I talked to Cherry about this, and I will say this too.

She had conversations with subsequent quarterbacks, Brett Favre among them.

And if you look at Brett Favre's signature, it's very neat.

Some listened and some didn't, but it was about be proud of your name, be proud of who you represent, meaning the Green Bay Packers, and sign an autograph as if you mean it.

And I've always remembered that because it really speaks to the man, the clarity, the...

charisma, the kindness, those are the things that really stuck out.

Yes, he was a great athlete.

But here's a guy 200th pick in 1956.

And 10 years later, he has the first Super Bowl MVP Corvette.

Right.

That is an amazing run.

Now you can talk about Tom Brady and certainly Tom Brady is probably the greatest of all time.

But if you look at that 10 year span where Bart was on the verge of being out of the league, right?

to being the most popular player in the United States, not just the NFL, but the United States.

He was getting more male than the president.

What an

incredible ride that was.

I just want to say one thing about, you know, oh, Bart Starr, you know, kind of smaller guy for quarterback, this and that, this and that.

But I was talking with, there was a guy, Bill Butler was his name, like a really reserved running backpack.

I said, tell me something about Bart Starr that, you know, we don't know.

He goes, we played in the winter basketball leagues.

He was a hell of an athlete.

People don't understand Bart Starr.

He didn't get there just by, you know, whatever.

He was a really good athlete that people didn't see.

Well, he said, you put him on a basketball court or baseball field.

He'll be the best one on the floor.

If you have time, I'm going to tell you the tie-in to the James Bond.

Now, I told

Doug

Radinius.

Doug

Radinius got the autograph of Bart Starr when he was eight years old into Pure Wisconsin.

And here we all.

All these years later.

All comes back.

That's right.

Darrell, keep up the good work that we love what you're doing.

And keep us informed of these, OK?

I will do that.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you so much.

Darrell Burnett, automobile gallery and event center.

Wow, have they got some cool stuff coming up between Bart Starr's car, James Bart, James Bond car collection.

Incredible.

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Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor.

Here's special thanks to Earl Burnett.

Some really...

cool things happening at the automobile gallery and events center with the James Bond car collection, the Bart Starr MVP award from the Super Bowl with the Corvette and great, great stuff.

We had Pam Citalon, executive director, Fox Cities Convention Bureau, Visitors Bureau, all the draft effects to Fox Cities.

They've got some really cool things happening.

including the shuttle from Fox River Mall, Randy Wright, former Packer quarterback, talked about the difference between draft day in 1984 and draft day.

Now we're going to have some more guys on and talk about those kind of things throughout the draft.

But Jim, introduce our special guest right now.

Well,

I invited our special guest to come on and she's going to be with us for the next half hour.

Then she's also going to be back here because we're going to record my show, which you're going to hear on Sunday at one o'clock at Lean Local.

We talk about the draft and all the great things going on, and getting there and getting back is something that we want to talk about.

So Patty Kiwis, who is- Which we're

talking about a little bit, even with Pam Settle.

That might, in people's minds, the angst of, you know, everything else, okay, we can handle it.

But that is a scary thing when you're

from

out of town.

I don't want to sit in a parking lot, and I don't want to sit in my car all day.

Don't want to sit in traffic.

Right, don't want to sit in traffic.

And- Don't want to miss my little exit thing.

Right.

That's why we are here now.

Exactly.

Take it away.

Patty Kiwis, who is the director of transit.

And I can, Braggian writes, I hired you and I'm glad I did.

You've been, you're doing a great job over

there.

Thank you.

And I know you want to come in here and talk about your new electric bus.

And you're always so, you know, green and you do some great things, green Saturdays that you do, but.

I'm going to hold off on that.

I want to talk about getting to the draft.

From here to there is

what we're talking

about, Patty.

Well, Patty, we've had Aaron Popkey on here a number of times.

And there's things going on.

Of course, at the stadium view, there's things going on at Badger State Brewery.

There's a lot going on here downtown, too.

I don't want to take away from all the effort that's been into it.

parking traffic keeps coming up and we don't know a lot about it, right?

And you do.

So tell us if we're afraid of $150 parking or $100 parking or if we're concerned about gridlock.

Absolutely.

So that is, we've been getting a lot of calls about it too.

We are definitely here to help and hopefully make it a great experience for everybody.

So we have a route that we designed from.

It's called downtown to title town.

You can park anywhere along that route and get on.

We do have some designated stops.

However, our drivers are awesome.

They will watch for people if it looks like they want to get on the buses.

You know, you can come downtown.

We don't have a tremendous amount of parking right at the transit center, but you can do some parking there or you can park anywhere along that route.

But we will be leaving downtown transit center.

We will be coming through downtown.

Which is on?

University.

I know one university, thank you.

And we will be coming down Washington, so Main Street to Washington, so people can come to- Right to here, this corner.

Right

past our studio,

K-Meister, all that.

Correct, and so there's the parking ramps, if you wanna come downtown, try some of the establishments, you know, enjoy yourselves a little bit before you head out to the stadium, leave that driving test.

We are running this as a pretty close to an express route, so we expect it's probably gonna take us about 20 minutes or so.

We will have buses constantly running.

I say that they're going to be coming through approximately every 15 minutes.

We can get caught up in traffic as well.

But our goal is we are just going to have buses keep running.

And they're going to go downtown, down Washington, over well, and then we will be taking Broadway to Ninth Street.

And then Ninth Street to St.

Agnes.

And

there's going to be a lot of parking off of Ninth.

They're,

you know,

there's just, that's a long street and you're on that thing all the way to what?

St.

Agnes.

Oh yeah, that's okay.

All the way down by Bay Family.

And so, and that was the purpose is for us to kind of stay out of that way.

So there are people that need to park because the closer you get to the stadium.

I understand that they'll start charging, but I don't, there's

not gonna be kind of a charge down here.

No, not at all.

Okay, so you can't,

really, can they?

I would think they could.

Yeah, I mean.

Yeah, I

think they would be able

to.

I'm just saying that I think people can park you can park in the in the ramp

in the ramps and

but you know after six there doesn't cost to for parking but I'm just saying that you can park at some

of these side streets on ninths.

No that's what I mean there can't be I'm talking about the ninth streets of the world those can't be charged can they?

So those are city streets without meters.

That's

what I'm

saying.

I thought you were talking about if you park on the lawn, the people can charge you.

No, yeah, I understand that.

No, no, no, no.

If you're out on

the street,

no, no, no.

Yeah, there's no meters in that area.

That's the part where you're getting it.

Broadway, 9th Street, there's...

Right, St.

Agnes, which is, of course, is, like you said, Bay Family, and then the bus is going to swing around and it's going to drop you off.

Um, right on ridge in St.

Agnes, which is awesome.

Correct.

And the entrance is right there.

So, um, you know, we're obviously as, as a city department, um, Green Bay police department I work with very, very closely.

So, um,

Captain Allen over there has worked with me very well to make sure we have a nice safe spot for individuals, especially any of those that may have, you know, some mobility challenges trying to get in and stuff.

So that's great.

They'll be able to get off right there.

Buses will just constantly keep going.

They're not going to stop through that entire time.

And then, you know, it'll come, the bus will come back.

Unless one

breaks down and they have to bring out the world's biggest crane to get it out.

Remember that?

That was

in her

box.

I know it.

If that happens, you'll never know it will be under the radar.

I've never seen something so huge that they used to haul the bus

one of those those

grains to the records that they use for like, like, like, to take a semi.

And that wasn't your bus.

It was the other guys.

But it

was just sitting there watching that was like, oh my God, this

is something.

We took a bus tour with restaurants.

For the international foods are out here.

Yeah.

Reintroduce our special guest.

Patty Key was, Patty Key is, is the transit director and she's a, runs all the transit.

Transit is more than Green Bay.

It's, it's Green Bay Metro transit.

So you go to different municipalities and how many drivers do you have now?

So right now we have 23 driver.

Right

and you're looking for a couple more

and

I applied when I didn't know what I wanted to do and you hired me Thank you.

Yes, you kind of passed us up to come and do this I know

I Applied and oh the background check and I was gonna do that.

I he was

gonna He would have the fastest

route

Now those game day rolls is what I really want to drive because that's that's a good time and you You have and I always said this when I went and talked to your group.

You know

very friendly drivers and customer service really is number one.

Safety is number one, but customer service is right up there with it.

Absolutely.

ARC drivers are absolutely awesome.

They have a lot of passion and dedication in what they do.

And you can see it in the smile on their face and all of those things.

And so we're super excited to be part of this.

They're excited.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Patty.

We've been kind of like chomping at the bit, chomping at the bit, chomping at the bit, chomping at the bit to really roll up the sleeves.

It's like, here it is, here's everything.

And it seems like it's been almost like this is the week for everything to come together, correct?

It is.

It's crazy.

After years of

planning, whatever, but the real stuff that's going to affect mom and pop and Joe and Marcy from WASA, this is the stuff

that's

important.

Yes.

And it's getting there.

It is.

And I think that's the, Johnny and I talked to a lot, a lot of people and this is...

the hesitation if there is any.

I think people, I think that game to experience is going to be just a blast.

And I think the way it's set up, I like the way it's set up.

And I think it's going to be affordable.

It's obvious it's free to get in.

But I mean, even the food trucks and things, I think that's going to be affordable for families.

The weather looks like it's going to be on our side.

So I think the only, not hesitation, anxiety might be a little bit the traffic.

And you're taking care of that because this route that Patty just talked to you about, which I'll give you the hours on it, but where you can get on,

every 15 minutes for free, there's no cost to this.

And you drop them off.

One of the few things there will be no cost for.

And you can get in and then leave at that same place to drop you off, right?

That exact same spot.

OK, that's always convenient.

So the hours are, so this is going to be running Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Thursday and Friday from noon until 10 p.m.

and then Saturday from 10 till 6 and you can look at this and we could just go online and take a look at this, right Patty?

Yes and I encourage people if you go onto our website it's right on our front page and we actually have real-time data feed right there if you click and go on to our draft page you will see you can see the real-time location of these buses so if you are downtown and you're inside eating at Hagermeister

and you're not sure where that bus is, you can pull that right up and see how close it is to you, so you know when to get out there.

It basically is, right outside the door of Hagemeister, right?

It is.

Okay.

It is, absolutely.

And so anywhere along that route, when you go on that website, it is real-time data.

It automatically updates.

There's no delay.

You can see where that bus is.

If you're at the draft and you're wanting to leave, not quite sure when the next bus is coming through there, you just watch that lifetime feed.

It's right there.

So Green Bay Metro.org, and I'm sure you

We've given this to all the hotels because

I know the hotels down here are

sold out and people can just jump on this.

And yeah, this is very, very, I'm not surprised because this is the kind of stuff you do, but this is just awesome.

And the fact that it's free speaks well of you, the city, the community.

Yeah, the city, you know, the city's great with helping, you know, as...

I'm so used to saying me, or as Jim had mentioned, that there is... It

would be okay if you said that.

Yeah, it is okay.

Trust me.

I'm not

going to say what that does, Sean, but trust me.

So over the years, the city has always supported transit, which is phenomenal, along with the other municipalities that we serve.

And the Packers have always been very supportive as they fund a lot of our service, too.

So we really appreciate it, allows us to do

that.

The National Football League is depending on people like you to make this a great event.

Let's not, I mean, let's

be honest.

I would agree.

They

need you.

I would agree.

I mean, it is, you know, we have all, you know, all these meetings I've been in from police and fire and DPWs and all these communities.

I mean, it is phenomenal how well everybody's been doing.

And I know that I have heard in numerous meetings from NFL staff on how advanced and how ahead and how awesome of an experience it's been.

I believe.

But I

do think there's been a lot of security, security, security.

It's like, okay, we got to get people there first.

You know what I mean?

And that's where

you

come in.

Yes, absolutely.

You're going to be

pleasantly surprised because you like full buses.

I love full

buses.

I know you do.

I like them packed.

I just remember those game day buses, how much fun it is.

And even if the opposition team is on it, people just, something about buses that

are fun because you're not driving.

Yes, we maybe might make you sing, you know, wheels on the bus go round and round, you never know, you know.

Oh yeah, we do that.

And especially, Chris, hey.

Do you have like, you know, when we go on those tours like Hawaii or something and there's all that kind of, hey, we're going to hear from Wisconsin.

And then the guy kind of talks about things on the way there.

And then at the end, he says, Hey folks, I hope you enjoyed the ride.

A little bit of appreciation would be appreciated.

And instead of putting money in a, you know, this guy goes.

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give them a

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Come over here every week.

I did.

I did.

Oh, that might not be bad.

We could like stretch rolls.

I could see you talking

for a little bit.

And I like the mornings too, which is what?

I was gonna do that.

Anyway, 5 a.m.

we start.

Nice.

So are you okay for the draft?

Are you up to date or up to whatever you want to call it for drivers?

So we are, we have, you know, I'll tell you, it's interesting because, you know, you go to all these other communities that hosted the draft before they're much larger communities from a transit perspective.

Did you

actually go to Detroit?

I did not, but I have been to the draft in Nashville.

Oh, okay.

On a personal perspective.

Okay,

let me just ask you that then.

Just physical geography of where it's gonna be.

How is

are not the footprint of the draft.

The

layout, the stage.

The stage.

Yeah, yeah.

What is?

Here, Green Bay is larger.

Really?

Green Bay is larger than what I've seen in Nashville.

Okay.

Interesting.

So we can fit that many people here?

We're going to do it.

Okay.

We have no choice.

It's like a wedding, right?

It's coming back.

That's right.

It's going to happen regardless.

That's

the other thing.

This is going to happen.

Yeah.

Which just is.

You know, we've been at it for well over a year.

I mean, you guys have been at it for... Aaron Popkey was saying, you know, he... Long time.

It was a 10-year project, wasn't it?

That's

what he said.

Yeah, they started way before.

I mean, a lot behind the scenes from their perspective, but it has been a long time.

And it almost

seemed like kind of a whim like, eh, what have we got to lose?

And then they come back to, okay, we need a thousand words of why we should.

But what a great way to show off the city, right?

I mean, you know, there's a lot of very unique history and all of that great stuff.

And I think it's, I think it's going to be great.

We're super excited for it.

And I think that, you know, is when you look at the history and our layout, I mean, people are going to come just because it's Green Bay,

right?

And so that that is going to be totally awesome.

They're going to kind of a completely different experience, you know,

whether it's attending that trap itself, visiting our city, using our bus.

I don't think anybody has as awesome services as we do, but so all of it is going to be a great experience and without a doubt, people are going to want to come back.

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